Powerline: The Lancet is a renowned medical journal headquartered in England. The current issue includes an article on Venezuela, titled “Data reveal state of Venezuelan health system”. The data in question come from the Venezuelan government, after two years in which it released no reports. No doubt the picture the government paints is, if anything, optimistic. Still, the facts are grim:
Maternal and infant mortality have skyrocketed in Venezuela in the past 2 years, and diphtheria and malaria, diseases that were once controlled, are on the rise according to data released by the country’s Ministry of Health. The epidemiological data show that maternal mortality rose by about 9% between 2014 and 2015, then jumped by nearly 66% by the end of 2016—-with 756 deaths. Infant mortality rose by about 30% between 2015 and 2016—-11,466 deaths in 2016—-according to government figures.
The country is on its eighth health minister since 2013. I don’t think personnel is the issue.
Always been a mystery to me why so many people gravitate toward failed socialistic concepts. And they do so despite all evidence of the repeated failures. The biggest mystery is why it seems so popular in the USA of all places.
Yes, but they chose to stick-it to the rich, so at least they have that.
Yup, it could be the answer is envy of what others have and the refusal to make the efforts to do the same.
Orgongrinder, the answer is always that all the previous attempts weren’t done right. It will be different this time.
…that toilet paper is vastly underrated?
No, socialism doesn’t stick it to the rich, it merely substitutes one class of rich (government officials) for another class of rich (capitalists). In socialism, you are not eliminating the rich, you are merely choosing the identity of those who will be members of the rich class.
I prefer capitalists to be the rich class, because they become rich by providing things people want, and because there is more opportunity for upward and downward mobility between the classes. Neither is particularly true for a rich government class.
@organgrinder May 27, 2017 at 12:50 pm
> Yup, it could be the answer is envy of what others have and the refusal to make the efforts to do the same.
Some fools believe in some form of judgment after life.
Remember back at the start when Chavez shut down resorts, and golf courses, and confiscated the oil companies? He sure showed those rich people how to do it right.
I still don’t understand how countries with “FREE HEALTH CARE” can go broke!
Just think how rich our country would be if we had free health care, free college tuition, free automobiles, free housing, free cell phones, and free food!
Socialism always … ALWAYS! … leads to death and servitude.
Just a damned shame that so many don’t figure it out until they’re either dead or enslaved.
izlamo delenda est …
As long as there are humans there will be classes and racists. We need classes because there are so many people who will never have ambition. And there will always be racists because you absolutely cannot force people to “like” something that they absolutely ‘DO NOT LIKE,” just because you think that they should.